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Top 15 Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes (2025 Update)

Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.”

1. “Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Quality is like quantity, but there’s a lot less of it.”

2. “Quality is like quantity, but there’s a lot less of it.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.”

3. “My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

4. “Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.”

5. “I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.”

6. “Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.”

7. “The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.”

8. “My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.”

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “History is time that won’t quit.”

9. “History is time that won’t quit.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “I don’t consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it’s done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.”

10. “I don’t consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it’s done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.”

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Youre only yourself when no ones watching!”

11. “Youre only yourself when no ones watching!”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “I’m gonna take your mother back to Lincoln,” I says. “I’m gonna get her a new coffin, a nice one, and a nice angel headstone. I’ll put her in the ground real good and all at my expense.” I expect Billy to smile or say thank you or something but she is looking hard at the wrapped quilt, thinking. There’s a part of the dress, just a little bit of the hem.”

12. “I’m gonna take your mother back to Lincoln,” I says. “I’m gonna get her a new coffin, a nice one, and a nice angel headstone. I’ll put her in the ground real good and all at my expense.” I expect Billy to smile or say thank you or something but she is looking hard at the wrapped quilt, thinking. There’s a part of the dress, just a little bit of the hem.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “I love beautiful black-and-white movies – anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.”

13. “I love beautiful black-and-white movies – anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.”

14. “The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.”

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Suzan-Lori Parks Quote: “Overweight southern senators are easy targets. They too easily become focal points of all evil, allowing the arts community to willfully ignore our own bigotry, our own petty evils, our own intolerance which – evil senators or no – will be the death of the arts.”

15. “Overweight southern senators are easy targets. They too easily become focal points of all evil, allowing the arts community to willfully ignore our own bigotry, our own petty evils, our own intolerance which – evil senators or no – will be the death of the arts.”

— Suzan-Lori Parks

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